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[Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, I don't blog but I hang out a lot at Ubuntu forums, really a lot!

While I find the current Ubuntu/Unity quite pleasant I think we have one unrelated problem that needs some additional thought.

Around mid-December it was decided by the UTB that support will continue for the non-PAE kernel option until the Ubuntu 
12.10 release, so there would be support in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. 

But the 
default i386 kernel in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS became the PAE-enabled 
kernel and the only options to keep those old Pentium M's running becomes installation from the non-pae mini.iso or upgrades from Lucid or Oneiric. Is that truly "support"? 

Regarding the aforementioned UTB meeting the minutes show that Colin said something to the effect that we could "revert if it causes too much fallout". I believe that "fallout" is apparent enough to require defaulting to the non-pae kernel.

I personally have no effected hardware, everything I have can run the PAE kernel just fine, but when no one else will speak up I try to be the guy that will.

Apologies in advance if I'm only being a nuisance. Since this doesn't directly effect me I truly questioned the value of even saying anything.

Lance, aka; Erick Brunzell @ Launchpad and kansasnoob @ the forums

--- On Wed, 2/29/12, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Very impressed with the latest changes
To: "Lance" <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "ayatana" <unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 5:15 AM


  
    
  
  
    On 28/02/12 21:33, Lance wrote:
    
      
        
          
            Thanks for the hint.
              I hadn't noticed that change between Oneiric and Precise.
              Now I must find something else to complain about it.

              

              I'm very serious about loving the recent changes. I think
              I'm a fair representative of the elderly community
              .......... someone who doesn't particularly care to learn
              new things, but just wants things to make sense.

              

              I think we're there!

            
          
        
      
    
    

    Makes me very happy to hear that! The elderly, the youth, the busy
    and the happily lazy, the artistic and the engineer are all people
    we care about, and it's wonderful to here that the work is making a
    difference. Thanks for taking the time to share the appreciation,
    it's very motivating for everyone here. If you blog, shout it from
    the rooftops!

    

    Mark